History: (Darkseid Vs. Galactus: The Hunger
(fb)) -
<centuries ago> - As in the mainsteam DC Universe, the planets
New Genesis and Apokolips
were created from the remains of one original planet.

(Deathblow/Wolverine#1 (fb)) - <@5,000 years
ago> - An
advanced civilization in China sought to rule the world. However, a
natural disaster almost destroyed them, and their high priestess used
her powers to contain all of their souls in an urn, where they would
remain until the time was right for them to return to the world and
conquer it.

(Darkness/Wolverine#1) - <1942, World War II> -
The mercenary known as the Spaniard was hired by the Nazis to find
Logan in France, as the Canadian had been running missions against the
Germans. The Spaniard, who possessed the Darkness powers, found and
confronted Logan in a Paris bar, where he offered him a drink. Logan
escaped, and the Spaniard gave chase. After a cat-and-mouse hunt, Logan
managed to kill the Spaniard. Afterwards, Dante, one of the creatures
that resided within the Darkness, promised to avenge his host, no
matter how long it took.

(WildC.A.T.s/X-Men:
The Golden Age#1) - <World War II>
- Logan was sent by Allied agents to recover the Lazarus Scroll from
the Nazis. He was caught by the Nazi Eikert, who attempted to take the
Scroll. Eikert ordered his men to kill Logan, who fought and tried to
escape. The Coda member Zannah arrived seeking the Scroll as well, and
helped Logan escape. They tracked Eikert and he revealed himself as an
alien Daemonite. Zannah killed him, and the two retrieved the Scroll.
After Logan met with Nick Fury, he and Zannah met up again and boarded
a train for Vienna. Zannah began to explain the significance of the
Scroll, which was a Daemonite item that they were seeking to reclaim.
Logan's senses gave away the presence of another Daemonite on the train
with them, but found themselves confronted by not only it, but a
mysterious man named Kenyan whom both Logan and Zannah were familiar
with. As the two battled Kenyan and the alien, Kenyan got possession of
the Scroll and escaped the train before a bomb on it exploded. Logan
and Zannah managed to jump from the train in time as well. They tracked
Kenyan to a cave where he was attempting to use the Scroll to revive
Ebron, the Queen Daemonite. Logan attacked Kenyan, and Zannah threw a
powerful crystal into the forehead of a weak Ebron, causing the area to
explode. Logan managed to pull himself from the rubble, but could only
find one of Zannah's broken swords.

(Gladiator/Supreme#1 (fb)-BTS) - Some time after
World War
II, the superhuman Supreme left Earth and traveled the spaceways. At
some point, he visited the planet Denuvi-7.

(Team X/Team 7#1 (fb)-BTS) - <@20-30 years ago>
-
Mystique
(posing as Leni Zauber) was hired by one government agency to
infiltrate
Numidia's Super Soldier Program just as Miles Craven hired Madamoiselle
Mirielle Duplessis to do the same. Neither was aware of the
other's true purpose, but both suspected the other of being a covert op.

(Team X/Team 7#1) - Shortly after, two separate teams
of
covert soldiers, Team 7 (Craven's team) and Team X were sent in after
her to locate and
destroy a location that was trying to produce Super Soldiers. Team 7's
helicopter was targeted by Numidian forces and shot down, but the men
survived. Elsewhere, Team X found their way into the base.
There, Omega Red and Madamoiselle Mirielle Duplessis met and attacked
them. Outside, Team 7 arrived and launched an assault on the
compound. "Zauber" attempted to cause friction between Duplessis
and Omega Red by claiming Duplessis was a spy. During the chaos,
Team 7 and Team X met up, and after a stand-off, realized they were
working towards the same goal. They searched the compound and
found a lab with several Super Soldiers in stasis tubes. Omega
Red released the soldiers, who attacked the two Teams. Meanwhile,
"Zauber" and Duplessis continued to fight, each accusing the other of
being a double agent. Craven's assistant Gabriel telepathically
contacted Team 7 to warn them that Craven was going to blow up the
complex with them inside. The two teams escaped, and the members
of Team 7 used their psychic link to psionically blast the compound
apart. As they began to fly away, Duplessis appeared out of the
rubble. She was rescued by them, but revealed herself to actually
be "Zauber", and then shapeshifted to her true form of Mystique, Team
X's
covert op. As they flew away in a helicopter, Omega Red dug
himself out of the ruins.

(Gen13/Generation X#1 (fb)) - <@1970s> -
Interpol sent
Sean Cassidy to protect some nuclear warheads from international
terrorist Carlos the Jackal. The Jackal showed up, with a superhuman
named Vortex in tow, and they attacked Cassidy's squad, killing most.
Before Cassidy could take them down, a group of Black Razors led by
John Lynch arrived and shot down Carlos' operatives, hitting Cassidy as
well by accident. Sean was taken to a hospital to recover. Vortex,
whose powers were barely controlable, was placed in a containment unit.

(Darkseid Vs. Galactus: The Hunger (fb) - As in
Earth-616's
timeline, Galactus arrived on Zenn-La, and was only swayed to spare the
planet when Norrin Radd offered to become his herald, the Silver Surfer.

(Darkseid Vs.
Galactus: The Hunger) - The Source revealed to
Highfather of New Genesis the impending arrival of Galactus. To save
his planet, he hid it from sight, and Galactus' herald the Silver
Surfer found the planet's twin Apokolips instead. There, the Surfer was
attacked by Darkseid's soldiers, the Parademons. He sent a signal back
to Galactus that he had found a suitable planet, and the world-devourer
set forth towards it. When Galactus arrived, Darkseid sent every
available weapon against the being. Orion, Darkseid's son, could
not stay on New Genesis and watch the events, and went to aid his
bitter rival and father. When he did arrive, he attacked the Silver
Surfer but was defeated and severely injured. When the Black Racer
arrived to take Orion to the land of death, the Surfer, realizing
Orion's nobility, tried to stop him. Instead, the Surfer had his
long-supressed memories of Zenn-La and Shalla-Bal return and he
attacked Galactus as well. Galactus easily subdued his herald, and
Darkseid used the moment to try to destroy Galactus with his Omega
Effect. This proved futile, and Galactus shrugged off the effects. He
wiped the Surfer's memories again and commanded him to hold off anyone
while he drained the planet of its life-force. To his surprise,
Galactus found that Apokolips had no life-sustaining forces within it.
Angered, he confronted Darkseid, who explained that while Apokolips was
barren, it was his and he would not let Galactus try to take it without
a fight. Seeing there was little more to do, Galactus and the Surfer
exited, in search of another planet.

(Daredevil and Batman (fb)) - Matt Murdock and Harvey
Dent,
both aspiring lawyers, attended a Columbia University debate
invitation, where they became friends.

(Superman Vs. the Amazing Spider-Man#1 (fb)/Superman
and
Spider-Man#1 (fb)-BTS/Batman Vs. the Incredible Hulk (fb)) - The
origins of
Superman, Spider-Man, Dr. Octopus, Parasite, Batman, Hulk and Lex
Luthor occured much the same
way they had on Earth-616 and Earth-DC.

(Incredible Hulk Vs. Superman (fb)) - The Hulk (along
with
Rick Jones) encountered the Circus of Crime and the Metal Master. At
some point, the Hulk also helped form the Avengers, though he left the
group shortly afterwards.

(Incredible Hulk Vs. Superman (fb)) - A rampaging
Hulk was
tracked down by Superman in the Southwest desert. The two fought for a
few minutes before the Hulk managed to escape and Superman returned to
Metropolis. Lois Lane arrived in New Mexico to follow up on the Hulk
sightings, and began to interview people who had seen him. Clark Kent,
too, was sent to the area, to interview Dr. Bruce Banner regarding his
work. Meanwhile, Rick Jones had managed to find the Hulk and tricked
him into reverting back to Banner. No sooner did Kent introduce himself
to Banner at the military base than Lex Luthor arrived, offering Banner
a job with LexCorp. Luthor had supplied the military with most of their
armament, but he was actually in search of the Hulk, hoping to use the
creature to destroy Superman.

Luthor used a fake Hulk to attack an surprised Betty
Ross and
Lois Lane, hoping to draw out the real thing. The Hulk found his
robotic counterpart and destroyed it. Superman arrived and realized
what was going on, but the Hulk's rage was too great for Superman to
calm down, and the brute attacked him. At that time, Luthor and Ross
launched a weapon called the Gamma Gun, hoping to destroy the Hulk (and
Superman as well, for Luthor), but the Hulk destroyed the machine.
Luthor fled the scene, and Superman explained to Ross that it was a
fake Hulk that attacked his daughter.

(WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Silver Age#1 (fb)-BTS) - The
Brood
arrived on Earth, only to discover the Daemonites, a similar race, were
already here. At some point, they were both discovered by Mister
Sinister, who used his expertise in genetics to create hybrids of the
two races. Sinister also captured Zannah (now calling herself Zealot)
at some point.

(WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Silver Age#1 (fb)-BTS) - For
unknown
reasons, Cole Cash was imprisoned in a South American prison, where
Remy LeBeau was one of his fellow inmates.

(WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Silver Age#1) - Nick Fury
arrived at
the South American prison and offered Cash a job in exchange for his
freedom. Agreeing, Cash was brought out and they were immediately
attacked by a group of beings that were Brood/Daemonite hybrids. They
escaped to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Heli-Carrier, where they were met by Ms.
Honeygate (actually the Coda member Savant). Elsewhere, the X-Men saw
their teammate Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) off, as she flew to a modeling
job in Australia. On the plane, Grey's mental powers caused her to
briefly hallucinate the Brood and Deamonites attacking her, calling her
Agent Maslow. She awoke and used her powers to find the real Maslow
aboard, but waited until they got off the plane to confront him. At the
airport, Maslow was being waited for by Cash, but a couple of alien
agents shot Maslow. Before he died, Grey asked him to open his mind and
transfer his knowledge of the aliens to her. Cash's own psychic powers
got out of hand during the battle, and after Grey helped take down the
aliens, she used hers to bring his back down. They then departed the
airport. Using the information she gleaned from Maslow, the two went
undercover aboard the cruise ship Heaven's Wave. Pike, a half-human,
half-Daemonite, arrived with the hybrids, but were attacked by the two
heroes. The fight took them into the bowels of the ship, where they
found Sinister's lab. During the conflict, the X-Men arrived and
Sinister made his escape. Cyclops immediately tried to attack Cash, but
Grey stopped both of them. With the aliens defeated (none of the heroes
except Zealot were aware of Sinister's involvement), the X-Men
departed. Zealot then offered to begin training Cash.

(Backlash/Spider-Man#1 (fb)-BTS) - <"five years
ago"> -
The Jackal cloned
Spider-Man much as he did on Earth-616.

(Superman Vs. the Amazing Spider-Man) - A giant robot
launched an assault on Metropolis, and was confronted by Superman. The
robot held off Superman long enough to steal a computer chip from a
S.T.A.R. Labs building. Superman tried to drive the robot into the
ground, but it's head, a decoy, launched into the air. As Superman went
to contain it, the robot's pilot, Lex Luthor escaped. Later, Superman
tracked Luthor down to another robot he was using under the sea. Luthor
managed to hide the computer chip he had stolen, but he was quickly
defeated and placed in custody.

Similarly, in
Manhattan, Spider-Man encountered Dr. Octopus
and a group of his hired thugs, but Octopus managed to evade him.
Spider-Man managed to defeat him in a second encounter soon after. Dr.
Octopus was taken to the Maximum-X prison, where Luthor was soon placed
as well. Luthor set in motion a plan to escape, and set off a sonic
contraption he had smuggled in. The two villains then escaped together.

Clark Kent, along with several other staff members of
the
Daily Planet, travelled to New York City to attend the World News
Conference. Also in attendance was Peter Parker, along with staff
members of the Daily Bugle. A fake Superman (Luthor) arrived and
kidnapped Lois Lane and Mary Jane Watson. Parker donned his Spider-Man
garb and went to investigate, where he encountered the real Superman.
Believing each other to be the culprit, the two heroes fought.
Realizing they'd been duped, Superman calmed Spider-Man down and they
agreed to work together. They tracked down Luthor and Octopus, but the
villains escaped to the Injustice Gang's satellite. Superman and
Spider-Man tracked them there as well, but when Octopus learned Luthor
was planning to use the computer chip he stole to destroy the world, he
turned on his partner and attacked him. The heroes used the opportunity
to defeat both of them, sending them back to prison. Afterwards, Kent
and Parker both gave scoops of the ordeal to their respective
newspapers.

(WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: the Modern Age#1 (fb)-BTS) - A young
mutant
runaway was kidnapped by the Hellfire Club in England.

(WildC.A.T.s/X-Men:
The Modern Age#1) - Professor X,
having sensed through Cerebro the runaway's disappearance, sent
Nightcrawler to scout the estate of Blair Cameron, a member of the
British arm of the Hellfire Club. While there, he was
attacked by the WildC.A.T. known as Warblade, who believed him to be an
alien Daemonite. The two battled briefly beore a trio of Hellfire
soldiers attacked both of them. Warblade then realized that one of the
guards was the Daemonite he was seeking, not Nightcrawler and killed
him. Warblade left, leaving Nightcrawler with many questions. Two
months later, the WildC.A.T.s leader, Lord Emp (Jacob Marlowe),
received an invitation to join the Hellfire Club, and sent Spartan and
Voodoo with him to investigate undercover. At the same time, Professor
X sent a small team of X-Men to the area to investigate. Marlowe,
Voodoo (his "secretary") and Spartan (his "assistant") arrived at
Cameron's estate. They were welcomed and treated to decadence. The team
of X-Men arrived on the location, and Wolverine recognized the
Daemonites. he led an attack against them. They were aided by the
arrival of the WildC.A.T. members Warblade and Zealot, whom Wolverine
remembered from their encounter decades earlier. Cameron's troops
assaulted the undercover C.A.T.s and took them prisoner. Cameron
revealed to them that he had joined forces with the Daemonites to help
raise hell on Earth. To unleash a demon, he required two beings:
a virgin (the runaway) and an immortal (Emp). Cameron invoked a spell
that gave rise to the demonic Lord of All That is Not. Before the
creature could claim its sacrifices, Spartan broke free and tried to
attack it. Just then, the combined units of X-Men and WildC.A.T.s broke
in and attacked Cameron's followers. The demon, without a sacrifice,
returned to its dimension, causing a large explosion that apparently
killed Cameron, but the others survived. They found themselves face to
face with a large number of Daemonites and Hellfire soliders. In
the ensuing battle, many of the Daemonites and Hellfire Club soldiers
were slain by the WildCA.T.s. The X-Men, disgusted by the WildC.A.T.s'
bloodthirsty ways, left, warning them not to cross paths again.

(Uncanny X-Men/New Teen Titans#1 (fb)-BTS) - Phoenix was corrupted by
her power, becoming Dark Phoenix. She destroyed the D'bari homeworld
and ultimately died sacrificing her life and redeeming herself.

(Superman and
Spider-Man) - Spider-Man stopped a group of burglars who were
attempting to break into a bank. All of them were unaware that below
the construction site next to the bank Doctor Doom resided in an
underground lair. After Doom was sure the robbers and Spider-Man were
away from his location, he turned his attention to monitoring the Hulk
via a television screen. The next day, J. Jonah Jameson sent Peter
Parker to Metropolis to follow the Hulk, who had been spotted there. In
Metropolis, the Hulk made his presence known, causing massive
destruction, and was confronted by Superman. Spider-Man arrived and
tried to help, but Superman saved the day by letting the Hulk take out
all of his rage, after which he reverted to Bruce Banner. Superman
realized that Hulk had been controlled by somebody, and had the local
authorities take Banner to S.T.A.R. Labs. Unbeknownst to any of them, a
short ways away, the Parasite escaped his underground prison, precisely
as Doom promised him would happen during the Hulk's rampage. Superman,
now aware that the Parasite was deliberately set loose, deducted that
Doom was behind it, as Luthor was still locked up. Superman arrived at
the Latverian embassy in New York, and confronted Doom. Doctor Doom
attacked Superman with Kryptonite, but the Man of Steel quickly encased
himself in the lead that Doom had proofed the room in and threw the
alien rock back into space. During their downtime in cities that they
weren't native to, both Clark Kent and Peter Parker took up freelance
jobs for each other's newspapers. Finding no clues to Doom's plans in
New York, Superman flew to Latveria. Meanwhile, Spider-Man came across
a construction site exactly like the one he saw in New York, and like
that one, it alerted his spider-sense. Exploring, he found a trap door
and entered. Doom and the Parasite, both still in Manhattan, looked on
as Spider-Man came across Wonder Woman, whom Doom had lured there
earlier. Doom tricked Wonder Woman into believing Spider-Man was his
henchman and she attacked him. Just as Spider-Man convinced her
otherwise, Doom's servants attacked, rendering Wonder Woman
unconscious. Spider-Man escaped, and met Superman as he made it back to
the surface. The two launched an assault on Doom's lair, but after a
hard fight, were defeated. Spider-Man awoke to find himself prisoner,
just as Superman, Hulk and Wonder Woman were. Doom asked Parasite to
use a special harness to drain Superman's powers, knowing that it would
kill the energy-drainer. Parasite, using the spider-sense he had
drained from Spider-Man, realized it was a trap and turned against
Doom. Their fighting gave Spider-Man the chance to free himself and
Superman. The two heroes defeated Parasite, but Doom courted his
diplomatic immunity and left without them being able to do anything.
They returned and freed Wonder Woman, but the Hulk, whose stasis
chamber had been cracked during the fight, escaped. With the ordeal
done, Kent and Parker returned to their respective cities and newspaper
jobs.

(Batman Vs. the Incredible Hulk (fb)-BTS) - The Shaper of Worlds was
found, powerless, by the Joker, whose mind intrigued the Shaper. The
two made an agreement that if the Joker could restore the Shaper's
dwindling power and mind, the Shaper would grant the lunatic his
greatest wish.

(Batman Vs. the
Incredible Hulk) - Later on, Banner, under the false
name David Banks, gained a job at Wayne Research in Gotham City. There,
he kept an eye on the experimental gamma-gun they were working on,
hoping it would be the cure for his condition. A week into the new job,
Banner/Banks was at work when the Joker and his goons arrived, spraying
the place with laughing gas. Banner thought quickly and put on a
biohazard suit, but Joker's goons attacked him. He turned into the Hulk
and lashed out at them. Batman arrived and took out the rest, only to
find a puzzled Hulk holding the gamma-gun. Both Batman and the Joker
pleaded with him to put it down, and Joker fast-talked Hulk into
believing Batman was out to get him. The Hulk attacked Batman and the
Joker used the opportunity to escape with the weapon. Batman defeated
the Hulk, and later, when the behemoth reverted back into Banner, Bruce
Wayne "arrived" and offered Banner a job to help build a replacement
gun. Elsewhere, the Joker used the gamma-gun on the Shaper, bringing
him back to full power. The energization did not last long, and the
Shaper felt himself slipping away again. A group of the Joker's men
posed as military and arrived at a Wayne Research facility, demanding
the arrest of Banner. Banner realized they were not who they said they
were and turned back into the Hulk. When one of the fake soldiers
wished for something to stop the Hulk, the Shaper used the last
vestiges of his power to create an even bigger creature, which defeated
the Hulk. They returned to the Joker's lair, but the Hulk's anger
couldn't be contained. He broke free and escaped, but not before the
Shaper realized he needed the Hulk himself, not the gamma-gun, to bring
himself back to full power. The Joker sought out Batman and convinced
him to help track down the Hulk and take him back to the Shaper to stop
him. They found the Hulk and led him back, but the Shaper's
out-of-control powers caused various manifestations of Hulk's and
Batman's old villains appear and attack them. They got through them,
and Shaper managed to drain enough of the Hulk's power to cure himself.
The Joker demanded that the Shaper live up to his part of their deal,
and Joker was transformed into the "King of the World." With the power
to alter reality himself now, he transformed the world into a clownish
Hell, but when he thought out loud that he never dreamed it would be
like that, he lost his powers, which were responding to his dreams. His
normal self once more, the Joker was defeated by Batman and the
Hulk. The Shaper, his power and mind restored, returned to outer
space. Joker was remanded to an asylum, and Batman let Banner go free
to find
his own way. (Uncanny X-Men/New
Teen Titans) - Seeking to explore the mysterious
cosmic area known as the Wall, the New God known as Metron agreed to
give Darkseid an item called the Psychon-Wave in return for Darkseid's
Omega-Phase Helmet, which he believed would allow Metron to enter the
Wall. Donning the Helmet, Metron entered the Wall. Darkseid then set in
motion his grand scheme. On Earth, members of the X-Men and the Teen
Titans were assaulted by dreams and visions of Dark Phoenix. In Gotham
City, Robin encountered Deathstroke the Terminator, who, along with a
squad of Darkseid's Parademons, were trying to steal some technology
from S.T.A.R. Labs. They defeated Robin and made off with it. When the
Titans recovered Robin, they decided to find the X-Men, whom they were
aware of having a former member named Phoenix. On Apokolips,
Deathstroke was treated well by Darkseid for his part in helping the
tyrant gather the technology. Darkseid sent his minion Ravok the
Ravager to track and capture the X-Men, and sent Deathstroke on his own
mission. The Titans arrived at Xavier's school, and Starfire, angered
over what their former member did, violently attacked Professor X. The
other Titans stopped her, but Ravok's group of Parademons arrived and,
believing the Titans to be the X-Men, took them captive. Changeling
used his abilities to morph into a Parademon lookalike and followed
them. Elsewhere, the X-Men confronted Deathstroke, who had been
visiting places on Earth where Phoenix had previously been, using the
stolen technology to absorb any energy residue she had left behind. The
X-Men fell to the Terminator's prowess, and he took them prisoner.
Ravok arrived on Apokolips, and was chided for bringing Darkseid the
wrong people, save for Professor X. Deathstroke then arrived with the
actual X-Men, and Darkseid realized Changeling was among his
Parademons.

The X-Men were
strapped to the Psychon-Wave, and their
memories, combined with the energy residue, resurrected Dark Phoenix,
or at least what appeared to be her. Together, the two and Darkseid's
army teleported to Earth in order to turn it into New Apokolips. The
heroes freed themselves and set aside their differences. Stuck in
space, they used their powers to try to pilot the asteroid they were
on, and came across Metron's chair, empty and floating in the void.
They recovered it, and while they discussed what it was, Kitty Pryde
and Changeling rested on it. When Kitty wished she was home, the chair
teleported her there. She and Changeling quickly returned, and the
others realized the chair worked on telepathic thought. The combined
teams used the chair to return to Earth, arriving in New York City.
They quickly found Darkseid's base below the Earth and attacked his
armies. As the others kept Darkseid, Deathstroke and the hordes
occupied, Xavier and Raven combined their powers to assault Dark
Phoenix, trying to cause her to disperse back into the myriad remnatnts
of her essence. She tried to possess the body of Cyclops to keep from
discorporating, but his memories of her caused her confusion. Realizing
she was more than Dark Phoenix, she lashed out at Darkseid for bringing
her back. The entirety of the Phoenix Force tore at Darkseid, draggin
him into space and into the Wall, of which he became part of. Metron
emerged from the Wall and left, content in the events. On Earth, the
X-Men and Titans wondered what, since this Dark Phoenix was only a
creation of Darkseid's, had actually warned them of the oncoming
events.

(New Avengers/Transformers#2 (fb)-BTS) - At some point around this
time, Carol Danvers and her space-faring team the Starjammers found
worlds ravaged by the Decepticons.

(Deathblow and
Wolverine#1) - Logan returned
to San Francisco and home to his girlfriend Sung Li, who was in tears.
She explained that
she had called her mother, and the woman told her she didn't have a
daughter. When Li then went to her home, her mother threatened to call
the police. Logan and Li went back to her mother's home, and she
greeted them happily. She claimed not to know what they were talking
about concerning the earlier incidents. Sung's mother then attacked
her, and a small group of ninjas crashed through the window. They
attacked Logan, but Sung's mother was cut and killed by one on
accident. Logan fell out of a window with some of them, and the rest
launched a rain of arrows down at him. Michael Cray, aka Deathblow,
witnessed the events, and shot one of the ninjas to keep him from
killing Logan. Cray then escaped with Logan, taking him to his home to
recover. Once he did, Cray told him that he was in the area
because he
was following a letter sent to him regarding his old Team 7 mate Phil
Chang. The address on the letter was Logan and Sung's home, but Logan
did not know anything about the letter. The group of ninjas arrived,
almost destroying Cray's home in the process, and the two made another
escape. They returned to Logan's place to find it in shambles and Sung
Li missing. However, a mysterious grinning man in a top hat was there.

(Deathblow and Wolverine#2) - The strange man, after
Wolverine
unsuccessfully tried to kill him, explained he was working for the
Librarian, a mystical being who is held prisoner in a library that
contained all knowledge. The top hat-wearing man then transported Logan
and Cray to the Library, where they encountered the Librarian. The
Librarian explained that Sung Li was a direct descendent of the high
priestess that had put her followers' souls into an urn to await the
day they would return to the world. The odd behavior in Li's mother was
one sign that the time was near. The Librarian gave Logan a talisman to
place on the urn to keep this from happening and returned the two to
Earth. Cray offered to help Logan in his search, and the two suited up.
They followed the Librarian's directions and found a group of the high
priestess' followers who had kidnapped her. They ran through many of
them before Logan located the urn. A mysterious group of archers
appeared to help Logan and Cray, and when Logan placed the talisman on
the urn, all of the ninjas fell over, their life forces drained. Li
emerged from a dimensional door and the three left the area. Cray
departed, and Logan took Sung Li home. Later on, he caught her putting
away a robe resembling the Librarian's, and realized she was indeed the
Librarian the entire time. She tried to explain that she did what she
had to to save the world, but Logan, disillusioned that she may have
only used him instead of actually loving him, left her.

(Backlash/Spider-Man#2 (fb)-BTS) - Spider-Man and
"several
heroes" were called to "an alien planet" where Parker found the
symbiote that he would eventually use as his costume. After returning
to Earth, he and Reed Richards discovered it was actually alive. It
would later bond with Eddie Brock.

(Spider-Man/Badrock#1B (fb)-BTS) - The "Kraven's Last Hunt" event
apparently occured on this world as it did on Earth-616.

(Spider-Man and Batman (fb)-BTS) - The "Maximum Carnage" event
apparently occured on this world much like it did on Earth-616.

(Batman/Punisher:
Lake of Fire (fb)-BTS) - A man named Cass
Rimer stole an experimental rocket fuel from the U.S. government, and
having struck up a partnership with Jigsaw, planned to use the fuel to
destroy Gotham City's water reservoir. With a construction
company Jigsaw had forced away from another crimelord named Tony
Bressi, the two planned to force Gotham to hire them to rebuild.

(Batman/Punisher: Lake of Fire) - As the new Batman
(the
former Azrael) tracked Rimer, the Punisher arrived in Gotham City,
having learned that his enemy Jigsaw was there. Jigsaw planted
clues for the Punisher to find in order to lure him into a trap.
It worked, and the Punisher was drugged by a fake nun at a church he
was sent to. He was rescued by Batman, who hesitantly agreed to
work with the Punisher in order to track down their respective
targets. Batman found Rimer and Jigsaw, and forced Rimer to
reveal his plans, but Jigsaw escaped, only to run into the
Punisher. After a brief fight, the Punisher threw Jigsaw off the
top of a building, but the criminal was rescued by Batman. Batman
tied up Jigsaw for the authorities, and left to confront the Punisher,
who he realized he had to take down as well. As soon as he left,
the Joker revealed his presence to Jigsaw and mocked him. The two
vigilantes fought, but the Punisher used a gas to cover his escape, and
left Gotham.

(Punisher Meets
Archie#1) - The Punisher and his ally Micro
Chip tracked the criminal Red Fever to the small town of Springdale,
where he was posing as an entrepreneur. Fever, as Melvin Jay, had been
invited to a 1950's-style dance by socialite Veronica Lodge. A group of
thugs looking for Red Fever mistook local teen Archie Andrews (who
greatly resembled Fever) for the criminal and abducted him. The
Punisher found them, and was about to kill Archie when he realized that
he had the wrong man. Archie and his friend Jughead escaped while the
Punisher contended with the other thugs and tried to convince the local
officials that the vigilante was in their town. The Punisher tracked
down Fever to the dance, just as Andrews arrived, causing a bit of
mistaken identities as some people believed Fever to be Archie, and the
Punisher to be the new school coach. Fever recognized the Punisher and
made his escape, abducting Veronica. The Punisher tracked the criminal
down, but Red was ultimately defeated when Andrews caused him to become
entangled in a balloon's wiring, and Red Fever floating into the air.
His mission completed, Punisher met back up with Micro and the two
discussed returning to Gotham City. Elsewhere, the X-Men's
computer system Cerebro somehow alerted Wolverine to the possibility
that Andrews' friend Jughead was a powerful mutant.

(Punisher/Batman: Deadly Knights#1 (fb)-BTS) - The
Joker had
reconstructive surgery performed on Jigsaw's face. The two planned to
take over Gotham's crime families after the death of Tony Bressi left a
vaccuum.

(Punisher/Batman:
Deadly Knights#1) - Some time later, the
Punisher returned to Gotham City to finish the job on Jigsaw, who never
left as the Punisher had expected him to. He began a massive
assault on the criminal element, trying to draw Jigsaw out. His
actions drew the attention of the original Batman, who had recently
resumed his mantle from Azrael. The two fought before the
Punisher again made an escape. After this, Jigsaw and the Joker
discussed the ramifications of the Punisher's return to Gotham.
The Punisher had his asssistant Microchip hack into local crime bosses'
computers at the same time Robin was doing the same for Batman.
Information led the Punisher to a club, where he was greeted by Jigsaw,
his face healed from its previous damage. As Microchip and Robin
attempted to shut each other down, the Punisher found himself between
Jigsaw and the Joker, and a local crimelord they were about to take
out. Batman arrived to witness the situation turn into a gun
battle, and joined the conflict. In the chaos, the Punisher tried
to kill Jigsaw with a makeshift grenade, but only ended up disfiguring
his enemy again. Soon after, Jigsaw tried to fight Batman, but
was quickly defeated. Meanwhile, the Punisher had run after the
Joker, but before he could kill him, Batman arrived and held off the
vigilante. He told the Joker to run, and after the maniac was
gone, told the Punisher that he would be responsible for the Joker and
that the Punisher had to leave Gotham City. The Punisher
complied, but only after a fistfight that left him on the losing end.

(Spider-Man and
Batman#1) - Peter Parker and Bruce Wayne both
began having disturbing dreams that recalled traumas in their life, but
with slight twists. In Parker's dream, the burglar who shot his Uncle
Ben was none other than the Joker, and Wayne dreamed that the man who
gunned down his parents was the super-villain Carnage. Spider-Man later
was called to Ravencroft Institute by Dr. Kafka, regarding the
imprisoned Carnage. He arrived there shortly before Carnage attempted
to break out, only to be contained again. Kafka introduced
Spider-Man to Cassandra Briar, a scientist who believed she could
rehabilitate Carnage through the use of biotechnic computer chips. The
procedure was performed on Carnage. Elsewhere, Batman had
defeated the Joker and imprisoned him once again in Arkham
Asylum. Briar arrived there with a timid Cletus Kasady (Carnage's
human host), and offered her treatment on the Joker. The surgery was a
success on the Joker, and the two were given a press conference where
Briar announced the surgery. While being driven away, Kasady killed the
driver of the car he was in, revealing that his symbiote had
short-circuited the chip that was planted within him. He then tried to
abduct Briar and the Joker, but was confronted by Batman. Spider-Man
arrived, having come to Gotham City to follow up on Carnage, and got
Briar away from the psychopath, and the two vigilantes attacked
Carnage. Carnage escaped with the Joker and, after finding a safe
haven, removed the Joker's chip, returning him to his former self.
Spider-Man offered his aid to Batman, who refused it, preferring to
track the two escapees on his own. The Joker and Carnage did not mesh
as well as they'd hoped, and attempted to kill one another. Batman,
realizing he needed Spider-Man's help, found him and the two went
looking for Carnage, only to find the aftermath of a confrontation
between him and the Joker. Carnage attacked the two, and had the upper
hand, but the Joker made his appearance known, threatening to blow them
all up with a deadly toxin. Carnage hesitated in fear, and Batman
took him down. Spider-Man got the toxic bomb away from the Joker and
chased him. He almost killed the villain, but held back at the last
minute. Instead, he knocked the Joker unconscious. After the two
killers were taken into custody, Spider-Man and Batman shook hands
before parting ways.

(Batman & Spider-Man#1) - Ra's Al Ghul sent his
daughter
to the United States to try to form a partnership with Wilson Fisk, the
Kingpin of Crime. They briefly flirted with the idea before Kingpin
backed out, not wanting to deal with what he perceived as terrorists
that may be bringing their "cause" to his streets. Batman, aware
that Talia was in America, had followed her from Gotham City and while
he was trailing her, Spider-Man found him. Batman again declined
Spider-Man's offer to help, but the hero persisted and Batman relented.
Meanwhile, Fisk had agreed to help Talia and her father, as he was led
to believe they could cure his ailing wife Vanessa. Fisk took Vanessa
to Tibet to meet Ra's Al Ghul in person, and Batman and Spider-Man
followed, having disguised themselves as two of Fisk's henchmen.
Ra's immediately spotted them and the two heroes revealed themselves.
While they easily handled a group of hired thugs, Ra's and Kingpin made
their escape to one of Ra's cavernous hideouts. Spider-Man and Batman
tracked them there as well. Ra's demanded Kingpin punch in a computer
code to destroy New York City in return for the antidote to Vanessa's
illness, which Ra's had led him to believe was not cancer but a
synthetic version that Ra's himself had created. Kingpin finally gave
in and pushed the button, but instead of New York being destroyed, the
terrorist's satellite was destroyed instead, thanks to some rewiring by
Batman. The Kingpin then revealed that he had been working with Batman
and Spider-Man all along, having wanted no part in Ra's Al Ghul's
scheme. Ra's, surprised by this turn of events, allowed all of them to
leave his base, even giving them safe transport (but also telling
Kingpin that no antidote ever existed). However, once back in the
States, Batman was secretly given the antidote by Talia, and he relayed
it to Spider-Man, who then left it with Fisk.

(Spider-Man/Badrock#1B (fb)-BTS) - Somewhere around
this
point, Dr. Octopus apparently "died" in the same manner he did on
Earth-616.

(Badrock/Wolverine#1)
- The other-dimensional being known as
Tyrax joined with Sauron and the Savage Land Mutates to plunder the
Savage Land. As Sauron was scouting the area around their base,
he came across Wolverine, who was in the Savage Land on a hunting
retreat. Sauron attacked the X-Man, but soon retreated. In
Washington, D.C., the member of Youngblood known as Badrock was
studying when he accidentally received part of Wolverine's radio
transmission to the X-Men. Deciding to meet his hero, Badrock
took a Youngblood jet and headed for the Savage Land. There,
Wolverine found the Mutates base and was about to attack when he found
Zabu, the sabertoothed pet of Ka-Zar, who had been captured by the
Mutates. Badrock arrived and was attacked by the Mutates, but quckly
defeated them. He and Wolverine soon met up and discussed the
situation. Sauron managed to take Badrock under his mental
control and had the teen hero attack Wolverine. The two soon
recovered their senses. Meanwhile, Tyrax announced the completion
of his newest experiment to Sauron: The Dinosauroids; human/dinosaur
hybrids. After some arguing, Sauron attacked Tyrax.
Wolverine, Badrock and Zabu made their way into the compound.
Zabu freed Ka-Zar while the others battled the rest of the Mutates and
the Dinosauroids. Knowing he was nearing defeat, Tyrax opened a
dimensional portal and escaped. The power used in fighting Tyrax
caused Sauron to revert back into his human form of Karl Lykos, who
aided the heroes in reverting the Dinosauroids back into regular
dinosaurs. Logan and Badrock left Ka-Zar and Lykos to finish up
and headed for home.

(Backlash/Spider-Man#1)
- The Cabal member Pike attacked a
facility looking for his enemies Backlash and Taboo. There, he ran into
Venom, who was searching out Taboo himself, as he'd learned she
possessed a living symbiotic suit similar to his own, and believed it
to be a spawn of Carnage's sybiote. After a brief fight, Pike convinced
Venom that he could lead him to Taboo. Sometime after, Backlash, in his
Marc Slayton identity, was summoned to the facility to investigate by
the FBI. Meanwhile, his partner Taboo was kidnapped by Venom after she
attended her brother's grave. As the two battled in public, they were
spotted by Ben Reilly, who had recently been led to believe he was the
original Spider-Man and had taken up the mantle. Spider-Man helped turn
the tables, but Pike used a baby to distract the hero, and he and Venom
made off with Taboo. Later, Spider-Man encountered Backlash, who
demanded that Spider-Man aid him in rescuing Taboo. Reilly agreed and
the two went in search of her and her captors.

(Backlash/Spider-Man#2) - While they kept Taboo
prisoner
inside an abandoned cathedral, Venom realized that her suit was indeed
not related to his own. Elsewhere, Backlash and Spider-Man examined a
small piece of Venom's suit that had been lost during the battle. Using
it as a sort of tracking device, they found the cathedral and attacked
the villains. In the midst of the battle, Pike took control of the
piece of Venom's suit and bonded with it, becoming even more powerful.
Venom joined the heroes in battling this new menace, and shortly after,
Spider-Man realized that they were in a church with bell-towers. He
lured the empowered Pike there, and used the bells' sound to drive the
symbiote from Pike. It returned to Venom, but Pike tried to use
Taboo as a hostage. Venom knocked Pike, Taboo and the bomb Pike had
just activated off the top of the church. Backlash caught Taboo,
but the building exploded just as they escaped. In the aftermath,
Backlash and Taboo found no trace of any of the others, though
Spider-Man emerged shortly after they left.

(Spider-Man/Gen 13#1 (fb)-BTS) - At some point, Peter
Parker
took the Spider-Man role back from Reilly.

(Spider-Man/Gen
13#1)
- The villainess Glider attacked
Spider-Man, who crashed into a music concert he was in town (as Peter
Parker) to cover. The concert was attended by members of the team
Gen 13. After Glider teleported away, Spider-Man passed out, and
the Gen13 kids took him to their headquarters. This was part of
Glider's plan, as she had been hired to capture the Gen 13
members. As Glider (who suffered multiple-personality disorder)
contended with a custody case over her daughter, Alissa, Spider-Man
awoke at Gen 13's base, just as Glider and a squad of troops
arrived. The battle took the combatants to a nearby school where
Alissa attended. When one of Glider's soldiers tried to use the
girl as a hostage, Glider shot and killed all of her own team. As
the last soldier fell, he shot Glider, who managed to teleport
away. Spider-Man boarded a plane to return to New York, leaving
Gen 13 to explain the situation to their leader, Lynch.
Elsewhere,
Glider had been taken to a hospital, where she slipped into a coma.

(Daredevil and Batman#1) - Batman encountered
Daredevil in
the sewers of New York while tracking a lead on some murders he
believed were committed by Two-Face. The two fought briefly, but
stopped when they realized they were searching for the same thing.
Unknown to him, Two-Face had begun working with the murderous Mr. Hyde,
and were after a number of pieces of technology. Even together, Batman
and Daredevil didn't get along, with Daredevil believing his old friend
Dent was still somewhere inside Two-Face. After more investigating,
Batman and Daredevil learned that Two-Face had stolen a neuro-chip that
could grow within a human body and was using Hyde as his unwitting
guinea pig. The two tracked down the villains, and while Batman had his
hands full with Hyde, Daredevil tried to get into Two-Face's mind. He
finally convinced Dent to give Hyde the antidote to stop the chip from
killing him, and the two villains were taken into custody. Afterwards,
Matt Murdock encountered Bruce Wayne, both realizing who the other was,
and Wayne told Murdock to stay out of Gotham.

(Daredevil/Shi#1) -
Shortly after confronting a rogue band of
Hand ninjas called the Makoto, Daredevil returned to his normal
identity of Matt Murdock, and proceeded to defend Stephen Timmons, a
client in a civil suit brought on by Peter DeNyse, a detective who
believed Timmons had sought to kill him. While questioning DeNyse on
the stand, Murdock could tell he was lying, and realized it may have
had something to do with a mysterious woman in attendance. As
Daredevil, he later confronted the woman, in actuality the assassin
known as Shi, on the grounds of Timmons' home. She escaped,
though. Later, the Makoto confronted Shi, and offered to help
heal DeNyse, who had been severely injured, if she joined them. They
had her read from an ancient scroll of the Makoto-Oni (a demon), and
the Makoto-Oni possessed her. She/it then confronted Daredevil.

(Shi/Daredevil: Honor Thy Mother#1) - Shi attacked
Daredevil,
and the two battled ferociously. Daredevil tried to convince Shi to
stop fighting, and when her own mind tried to reassert itself over the
demon, the Makoto-Oni attempted to strangle her through the possessed
medallion she wore. Daredevil performed CPR and revived her. He left
her with her mother and went to Sister Maggie for advice. There, a
repossessed Shi attacked him again, rendering both of them unconcsious.
The Makoto kidnapped both and took them to an underground lair. They
released the Makoto-Oni into a physical form, which tried to kill Shi,
but the two held the demon off. With little left to lose, Shi used the
words her mother gave her, and instead of fighting the demon, she
embraced it, causing it to disperse. The two then went their separate
ways.

(Spider-Man/Badrock#1A (fb)/#1B (fb)-BTS) -
Spider-Man
stopped a robbery at a diamond store. Unbeknownst to him, the robbers
were working for Mysterio, and they planted a holographic device on
Spider-Man during the encounter.

(Spider-Man/Badrock#1A) - J. Jonah Jameson scored an
interview with Youngblood leader Shaft, determined to expose the
government heroes as shams. Shaft, not wanting part of the interview,
convinced his teammate Badrock to take his place, lying and telling the
young hero that Jameson owned a lost episode of Battlestar Galactica.
Elsewhere, Mysterio began to set his plan to kill Spider-Man into
motion. Jameson and his photographer Peter Parker arrived at the hotel
and found Badrock waiting for them instead of Shaft. As Jameson
complained, a being they believed to be the Rhino attacked the
building. Parker slipped away and changed into his Spider-Man outfit,
and he and Badrock easily defeated the "Rhino." No sooner had they done
so when Venom attacked them.

(Spider-Man/Badrock#1B) - After defeating Venom as
well, the
two heroes then had to deal with what they believed to be Carnage, the
Green Goblin, the Hobgoblin and the Vulture as well. Spider-Man
realized they defeated his deadliest foes too easily and went to
investigate. They discovered the holographic device on Spider-Man,
which led them back to Mysterio, who they quickly defeated. Badrock,
glad to have helped Spider-Man out, agreed to send the entire
Youngblood team with Parker to the Daily Bugle to take the interview.
Parker demanded, and got, triple his usual rate from Jameson for the
job.

(Gladiator/Supreme#1
(fb) - Supreme, now insane with his
religious zealousness, returned to Denuvi-7. There, he first destroyed
a Shi'ar orbiting outpost above the planet, killing everyone aboard.
The Shi'ar sent the Imperial Guard member Gladiator to investigate and
deal with Supreme. Supreme explored Denuvi-7 and when he
discovered that in the years since his first visit they had come to
worship him, he went into a rage. After killing several of the
aliens, Supreme was confronted by Gladiator. The two fought (a
LOT), with neither gaining the upper hand due to their similar power
levels. The conflict took the two into space, where they
continued their battle. Meanwhile, the denizens of Denuvi-7 began
to burn their symbols of the worship of Supreme, including
priests. When Gladiator realized he could not defeat Supreme, he
pretended to be dead. Supreme, content with his victory, left
Denuvi-7. Afterwards, the Shi'ar sent missionaries of their own
faith to the planet to try and help restructure the world's theology
and bring balance to their shattered views.

(Gen 13/Generation
X#1) - Trance tracked down Carlos the
Jackal in a bar, and used his mind powers to discover the location of
Vortex. He then commanded Carlos to kill himself. Trance and his Freaks
found and abducted Vortex from his containment center. This caused the
mutant Emplate to sense the being's existance, and he began to search
for this new potential power source. The abduction also set off
Cerebro, alerting Banshee to the situation, just as Lynch was alerted
to it by the government. Cassidy's team Generation X and Lynch's team
Gen 13 arrived moments apart, and the three groups had a stand-off,
Emplate, from his dimensional prison revealed himself and tried to feed
on the power source he sensed earlier, but Trance convinced him to work
with him in return for the secrets to the powers of Qeelocke, Gen 13's
teleporting "pet." Emplate, Trance and the Freaks escaped just as
Vortex woke up from his containment. At first startled to see
Lynch, the being responsible for imprisoning him, the two teams pleaded
with him to trust them. As Emplate and Trance's alliance began to
quickly crumble, Vortex transported the heroes to their location.
During the fight, the villains were defeated and escaped. Generation X
and Gen 13 parted on amicable terms, leaving Vortex to find his own
destiny.

(Generation X/Gen 13#1 (fb)-BTS): While perfecting
his
organ-transplant process utilizing the organs of super-powered beings
to normal humans, Pretorious learned of the existence of Gen 13, a
group
of superhuman teens and their mentor John Lynch. Deciding to create a
situation in which he could capture these children without anyone
realizing he was behind it, he invited several private schools to visit
his castle, La Casa Del Sol, which he purposely misrepresented to be a
modern resort hotel.

(Generation X/Gen13#1 (fb)): Pretorious welcomed the
arriving
members of Gen 13 to his home, and had his assistants, Nook and Cranny,
carry their bags. After they were attacked in a hallway by his
ape-hybrid, Pretorious told them it was just a normal ape that he kept
in his lab for studies that got loose. He then left to welcome the next
group of students to arrive.

(Generation X/Gen13#1): Pretorious welcomed the
arriving
members of Generation X to his home, not realizing they too, had
superpowers. The next morning, the two groups of students and
Pretorious enjoyed breakfast. Later that day, while at the beach, the
teen heroes were attacked by "Salty," Pretorious’s man-fish hybrid. The
creature returned to the castle, bringing the unconscious bodies of
Freefall and Synch with him. Realizing this creature was tied into
their host somehow, the members of Generation X and Gen 13 returned to
the castle, where they witnessed the professor explaining his plans.
They crashed through the ceiling and confronted Pretorious, but he
quickly subdued them with poison gas. When he learned one, Burnout, was
missing and had gone back to town for help, he took the Hybrids with
him to track the teen down. Shortly after finding Burnout, the rest of
the members of the two teams, having escaped, joined in the fight
against the Hybrids, many of whom escaped. Trying to get away,
Pretorious was cornered by M and Freefall. John Lynch later handed him
over to a government project where he could use his knowledge for their
benefit.

(Incredible Hulk Vs. Superman) - Lois Lane watched a
television program documenting the history of the Hulk, and when her
husband Superman arrived, they discussed Superman's first encounter
with the creature.

(Batman/Daredevil:
King of New York (fb)-BTS) - Jonathan Crane, the Gotham City
villain known as the Scarecrow, hired Catwoman to go to New York to
steal files pertaining to the Kingpin from the law offices of Shane,
Murdock & Nelson. Murdock, as Daredevil, followed her back to
Gotham.

(Batman/Daredevil: King of New York) - Daredevil
watched as
Catwoman was about
to hand over a briefcase containing the files to a couple of thugs when
Batman arrived on the scene. Hoping to keep Batman from messing up his
sting, Daredevil attacked him, and the two fell onto the roof where
Catwoman and the thugs were. Catwoman got away, taking the files to
Scarecrow. In the meantime, Batman and Daredevil had stopped their
fight and decided to work together, and Batman found traces of
Scarecrow's fear gas on the thugs. Scarecrow arrived in New York City,
ready to take over as the new crimelord. He used his gas to take
control of many of the Kingpin's minions and sent them to start a gang
war. He also sent to of the hynotized thugs to the Kingpin to tell him
he was taking over. Batman and Daredevil confronted the Kingpin, who
steered them in the wrong direction while he personally went after the
Scarecrow. In an armed helicopter, he tracked the madman down to the
Statue of Liberty, where Scarecrow was prepared to set off his gas
during a storm, causing it to sweep across the city. He tried to kill
Scarecrow, who blew up the helicopter, though Kingpin managed to
survive, grabbing on to the side of the Statue and gaining entry.
Daredevil and Batman arrived and the two seperately confronted the
villains. While Batman fought Kingpin to a standstill, Daredevil came
face to face with the Scarecrow. Scarecrow tried to douse Daredevil
with his fear gas, but the vigilante fought the effects, and Scarecrow
was sent plunging from the side of the Statue. With his rival dealt
with, Kingpin gloated that there was nothing the two heroes could do to
him and walked away free.

(Wolverine/Shi: Dark Night of Judgement) - As
representatives
of two clans, Shi and Wolverine met to duel, to see which clan's
members would be allowed in heaven. They fought. A lot.

(Punisher/Painkiller
Jane#1) - Painkiller Jane witnessed the
Punisher's raid on one of Vinnie Veronica's mob groups. She fell
instantly in love with him and began to follow him. She broke
into his house, and began to imagine what life would be like if the two
of them were married. The Punisher arrived and after she
professed her love for him, he kicked her out. She began to
continue hounding him, with him even attempting to put her on a one-way
plane trip to Anchorage, Alaska. She returned and resumed her
search. The Punisher found Veronica and launched an assault on
his yacht, but was taken down by Vinnie's hired goon, Skinner.
Jane tracked them down, just in time to see Veronica's gang torturing
the Punisher. She made her presence known, killing several of the
mob boss's men, but when she saw Skinner about to fire a grappling hook
at Castle, Painkiller Jane jumped in between them, taking the hook
through her abdomen. The Punisher recovered and apparently killed
Skinner. With their enemies disposed of, the Punisher agreed to
sleep with Jane, on the condition she leave him alone for the rest of
her life. The next morning, she awoke to find the Punisher gone.

(Gen 13/Fantastic Four) - Gen 13 visited New York
City, but
decided to leave their pet Qeelocke in their hotel room while they went
site-seeing. When a bizarre creature entered Earth's dimension in the
Atlantic Ocean, Qeelocke sensed it and began to act violently. Later,
Gen 13 returned to find that Qeelocke had busted out of the room and
gone on a rampage, and had also begun to grow. While they were out
killing their evening, Spider-Man and the Human Torch came across
Qeelocke, and, not knowing what it was, captured it. Torch told
Spider-Man to bring it to the Baxter Building. As he flew back there,
the Torch caught the attention of Freefal, who mistook him for her
teammate Burnout. After Spider-Man delivered the still-growing Qeelocke
to the Fantastic Four, the team went to investigate the new creature
that was seen in the ocean. Gen 13 realized that the Fantastic Four
were holding Qeelocke and Freefall went to the Baxter Building to talk
to the Torch. When the Torch explained that Qeelocke was growing and
violent, Freefall flew through the building looking for him. When she
did, the rest of her team, who had followed her, arrived and confronted
the Thing and Torch, and fought them while trying to free their pet.
Before things could go too horribly wrong, Mr. Fantastic arrived and
settled things down, but just as he did, the other creature made its
way on to land. Qeelocke broke free and in its frenzied state, went to
meet the other creature. Mr. Fantastic theorized that the two
now-gigantic creatures must be mortal enemies and were tracking each
other down by instinct. This proved to be quite incorrect when the two
monsters finally confronted each other and, instead of fighting, began
to mate. When they were finished, the other creature disappeared,
apparently back to its original dimension, while Qeelocke returned to
its normal size and attitude. The two teams, somewhat embarrased over
the situation, parted ways.

(Witchblade/Wolverine#1
(fb)-BTS) - A mutant named Kaylie was
turned over to the Xavier Institute when her father turned states
witness against crimelord Simyon Lebedev. Somehow, she came to possess
the Digitabulum (aka the Witchblade), taking it away from Detective
Sara Pezzini. She used her mental powers to try to give Sara a
new life, and had her and Wolverine fall in love.

(Witchblade/Wolverine#1) - Pezzini and Wolverine,
whom Sara
was remembering as "Scott," were married in Las Vegas. As they left the
chapel, Wolverine felt a pain in his chest, and a spike shot out of it.
He quickly healed, but before the two could figure out what was going
on, they found a briefcase in their limo with at least a million
dollars in it and a note wishing them happiness in their new life. At a
bar, they tried to figure out what had happened and why they had lost
their memories, with both subconsciously drawing pictures with their
blades of Kaylie. They even called phone numbers they remembered, with
Sara getting her own answering machine and Logan made contact with Sage
at the Xavier Institute. Once they figured out who they were, Lebedev
arrived, with Kaylie in tow. Lebedev ordered his men to kill Wolverine.
He then ordered Kaylie to force Sara to jump from a ledge, but
Wolverine recovered from the gunshot wounds and saved her. The two took
down most of Lebedev's men and Sara reclaimed the Witchblade from
Kaylie. Wolverine killed Lebedev and Kaylie was placed under
observation. Afterwards, Logan and Pezzini decided they may really be
in love after all.

(Darkness/The
Incredible Hulk#1) - While riding on a subway,
mafia hitman Jackie Estacado recognized a fellow passenger as Dr. Bruce
Banner. He followed Banner, who pulled a gun on him, demanding to know
who he was. Estacado asked for an autograph, as he didn't really
believe Banner existed. Banner conceeded and the two parted. Moments
later, Estacado, through the powers of the Darkness which he possessed,
saw that everyone in the subway system would soon die. At that moment,
a group of Chechnyan terrorists had taken over the oncoming train and
loaded it with a bomb. As the area was too bright for Jackie to release
his own powers, he pushed Banner in the way of the train, knowing he
would transform in the Hulk. Banner did so, destroying the front end of
the oncoming train. Jackie tried to explain his actions to the Hulk,
but the brute lashed out at him. Estacado then tried to attack the Hulk
with his Darkness imps, but they were no match. The terrorists tried to
attack both of them, and the Hulk and Estacado made quick work of most
of them. As the Hulk transformed back into Banner, he witnessed Jackie
kill the last one with his Darkness powers. Estacado offered Banner a
job in his organization, but Banner declined and retreated into the
subway tunnels. A team of police arrived, and Estacado saw their
upcoming deaths before they went into the tunnel after the Hulk.

(Darkness/Wolverine#1) - Jackie Estacado, the
Spaniard's grandson and current bearer of the Darkness, was sent by
Dante to find Logan. He found him in a bar in Brooklyn, and confronted
him. Dante egged Jackie on to kill Logan and avenge his grandfather,
but after a brief fight, Jackie called for a truce as he was
uninterested in avenging a man who he knew to be worthless. Angered,
Dante emerged from the Darkness and was cut down by Jackie and Logan,
who then shared a round of drinks.

(Cyberforce/X-Men#1 (fb)-BTS) - The Hand kidnapped
Cyberforce member Cyblade and began a ritual to brainwash her.

(Cyberforce/X-Men#1) - Cyblade's teammate Ripclaw
tracked her down and tore through the Hand members to recover his
partner. After defeating the ninjas, the two were attacked by two
malfunctioning Sentinels which had been left in a storage lab below the
city and which misread the Cyberforce members' patterns as mutants. The
Sentinels captured the two and returned to their base.

Later, the X-Men Wolverine and Psylocke, in Japan for
their own reasons, stumpled upon the battle scene and Wolverine used
his sense of smell to track the Sentinels through the Tokyo sewer
systems. In their lab, he found the Cyberforce members placed in
containment tubes and freed them. The deactivated Sentinels awoke and
the battle was carried to the streets of Tokyo, where the four heroes
destroyed the two Sentinels. Wolverine offered the two a place with the
X-Men, but they declined.

(Witchblade/Punisher#1) - Detective Sara Pezzini and
her partner Patrick Gleason were tasked with transporting Russian
hitman Brunt as he turned state's evidence against his employers. The
Punisher comandeered the truck, intent on killing Brunt. He forced the
two detectives to bound themselves but Pezzini broke free and used the
Witchblade to transform into her super-powered form. She tried to
reason with the Punisher to spare Brunt. Taking advantage of the
situation, Brunt attacked Pezzini, but was shot and killed by the
Punisher. The vigilante then departed, leaving Pezzini with doubts
about which of their paths was the right one.

(Unholy Union#1) - Dr. Strange felt a disturbance
threatening the balance of the Earth. Elsewhere, Estacado celebrated
his freedom with his friend Butcher in a bar. Unknowingly, a very
pregnant Detective Pezzini and her friend Dani Baptiste (the new
wielder of the Witchblade) entered the bar and confronted Estacado.
Pezzini warned him to not get in trouble again, but was interrupted
when Ghost Rider burst through the window, demanding vengeance against
Estacado. Estacado transformed into his Darkness form to confront Ghost
Rider, but unbeknownst to all, Bruce Banner was in the same bar, trying
to drown his troubles with alcohol. The disturbance caused him to
become the Hulk, whom the Darkness unwisely tried to talk to,
remembering their previous encounter (unfortunately, so did the Hulk).
Baptiste unleashed the Witchblade in an effort to help Estacado against
his two assailants, and after much fighting, Dr. Strange arrived,
teleported Ghost Rider and Hulk away (washing their memories of the
encounter) and explained to Darkness and Witchblade that a time of
crisis was about to occur that required their aid, thus his actions to
protect them. Elsewhere, members of Cyberforce worked on something (see comments).

(New Avengers/Transformers#1-4 (fb)-BTS) - The
Decepticons, a group of evil robots from the planet Cybertron who had
recently arrived on Earth, set about a new phase in their plot to
dominate the world. They arrived in Latveria with a building called the
Array, and launched an attack on Dr. Doom's robot forces, destroying
them and taking the Psycho-Prism from his possession. They then began
to attack neighboring country Symkaria in hopes of triggering a nuclear
war, using the Psycho-Prism to radiate the Aggression Wave, which built
up rage in humans. To stop the impending war between Latveria and
Symkaria, SHIELD requested the Avengers travel to Latveria to
investigate.

(New Avengers/Transformers#1) - Four of the Avengers
(Cage, Captain America, Spider-Man and Wolverine) found the remains of
Doom's robots before stumbling upon the Array. Realizing that
Spider-Man's blood could infuse their bodies with greater power through
a process called "mirror response mode" the Decepticons captured
Spider-Man, taking him to their leader, Megatron. As Falcon and Ms.
Marvel arrived to aid the Avengers, the Aggression Wave caused the
heroes to begin fighting amongst themselves. Having observed the
activity, the Autbots (the Decepticons' mortal enemies) opted to reveal
their presence in hopes to stop their enemies. However, the maddened
Avengers immediately attacked the robots.

(New Avengers/Transformers#2) - As the Avengers
fought the Autobots, Dr. Doom arrived and helped the Autobots calm down
the heroes. Explaining his situation, Doom became frustrated with the
heroes, and departed, claiming to go to Symkaria to broker peace.
Shortly afterwards, Iron Man, wearing a giant suit of armor he had
developed after hearing rumors of the Autobots and Decepticons, arrived
to help his allies against the Decepticons.

(New Avengers/Transformers#3 (fb)-BTS) - Instead of
going to Symkaria, Doom instead chose to ally himself with the
Decepticons.

(New Avengers/Transformers#3) - As the two sides
clashed, Cage, along with Autobots Prowl and Ratchet, entered the Array
to find Spider-Man and destroy the Psycho-Prism. Megatron, now
empowered by the mirror response mode, taunted the heroes from inside
the Array and revealed Doom's presence by his side. This did not last
long, as Megatron soon turned on Doom, knocking him out with a powerful
blast. The ultra-powered Megatron then left the Array to confront his
enemies.

(New Avengers/Transformers#4) - Spider-Man broke free
of captivity and a recovered Dr. Doom took down the Decepticon guard
that stood nearby. Outside, Megatron clashed with the giant Iron Man,
ultimately destroying the Avenger's new armor. At the battle continued,
Cage, Spider-Man, Doom, Prowl and Ratchet located the Psycho-Prism,
which was being guarded by Ramjet, a Decepticon with designs of
conquest all his own. Not wishing to take part in Megatron's defeat,
Ramjet departed, leaving the Prism unguarded for Wolverine to destroy.
With its power source gone, the Array began to crumble and the heroes
escaped, though Doom remained inside to gather the shards of the Prism.
With his power ebbing, Megatron was defeated, and the Autobots silently
departed the battle scene. As they observed the Avengers from afar,
they noticed the Quinjet used by the heroes had a design that appeared
to be Cybertronian.

What is Earth-Crossover, and why aren't all
crossovers with other companies included?

This profile only deals with
crossovers
involving Marvel characters and those of other companies in which there
is no explanation for why they share the same Earth, and there is a
sense of history showing that these characters are natural to this
Earth. There are many crossovers involving Marvel characters that
are not included in this profile, for various reasons. These crossovers
include:

Conceivably, this Earth-Crossover could theoretically
contain
most other inter-company crossovers involving two (or more) non-Marvel
universes as well, but since we're only dealing with Marvel (and that I
don't think we need to do the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon game of linking
Spider-Man to Cherry Poptart) only books concerning Marvel characters
are included.
Also, as is obvious by certain remarks, many of the events that occured
on Earth-616 occured here as well. However, only the ones that are
directly referenced in these books (Maximum Carnage, Secret Wars) are
mentioned in History. Even if
it's something fairly obvious, unless it was in these actual books, it
is omitted. For instance, it's a given that most people familiar with
the character know that Azrael took over the role of Batman after Bane
broke Bruce Wayne's back. However, just going by what is presented, we
only know that in this universe, Azrael replaced Wayne temporarily, but
we are never explicitly told why. Thus, it is not mentioned.

There's also the odd chance that every single one of these crossovers
occured on the alternate Earth that was created when Krona merged
Earth-616 and the DC Earth in JLA/Avengers#2-3. As evidenced in #3 of
that series, the characters shared that world for some time (to them
at least), with little change to the characters themselves. It is
possible that Krona created not only a contemporary Earth when doing
so, but also created its past and future as well. Time is tricky that
way. As to how other characters from non-DC or Marvel universes show up
on it...I don't know. Maybe they were briefly merged as well. Either
way, this can NOT be the same world that was created by the Brothers
(Earth-Amalgam) or any other similar event where the characters were
changed entirely from their Earth-616 versions.

For the most part, almost all of these stories could have conceivably
occured on Earth-616 as well, as there isn't too much that would
automatically exclude them. There may very well be a Darkseid or
Archie, but we've never seen them. Generally, the stories don't mess
around with any of the characters in terms of development, so that's
not a problem. There may even be a Gotham City on Earth-616 that we've
never seen before (hey, if Genosha can "suddenly" exist, why can't
Gotham?). That said, it's better to exclude these crossovers from
Earth-616, but there's not much that directly says so, outside of
someone else owning the characters.

It should also be noted that, as far as we know, each and every single
one of these crossovers could have occured on different alternate
Earths. However, for simplicity's sake, and since they generally don't
have anything in them that contradicts one another, they're included in
one all-encompassing entry.

So, why can't any or all of these have occured on Earth-616 or Earth-DC
during a temporary merger? Because as pointed out in JLA/Avengers, a
merger of the two worlds causes a lot of wide-ranging havoc.

So, why can't any of these adventures deal with, say, Earth-616
characters briefly visiting Earth-DC? Because as stated, none of these
characters give any indication that this world isn't natural to them.
Spider-Man, Logan, Superman...they all have histories on this world.
About how Crisis on Infinite Earths ties in: It doesn't. It may very
well have happened on this world, but there's no direct reference to
it, and so I have opted to consider pre- and post-Crisis versions of
characters (Superman, Luthor, etc.) the same along the way. If it did
happen, then it affected certain characters as it did on Earth-DC, but
I'm still going with a linear history here, with that acting only as a
theoretical reality change, not a full-blown wipe as happened on
Earth-DC. Since it's not referenced, I really don't care.

This entry also does not include crossovers with Marvel characters
where they met non-Marvel owned characters published by Marvel. Many of
those appearances were licensed and considered part of Earth-616, even
if they can't be fully referenced anymore (Rom, Team America, etc.).
Others like the Spider-Man, Nick Fury appearances in Transformers#3 (as
well as the Godzilla reference in it) are considered part of
Earth-Transformers. Either way, they exist elsewhere, not on this
world.

The
one crossover that doesn't fit:

Generally, virtually ever single crossover Marvel has taken part in
that doesn't require dimension/time travel can be placed on this one
world with very little difficulty. As none of them have wide-ranging
ramifications on the main players, and they usually end up pretty much
where they were at the start of the stories, there's nothing precluding
them from this. There is, however, one Marvel/DC crossover that simply
can't fit on this world without a lot of retconning and reworking, and
considering the type of world this is, that will not only never be
dealt with, but is useless to even try. This would be the Captain
America/Batman crossover. While Captain America was active in World War
II and in modern times, there never was an Earth-DC Batman that did the
same. The WWII-era Batman was a different character from a different
reality (Earth-2, DC Universe) and not the same exact character we see
now (Earth-2 was DC's way of having an alternate Earth in which all of
their characters' adventures during WWII could occur, as the characters
were around then instead of the modern era). Because there's no way we
can discern why Batman, Robin and the
Joker would have been around then without time-travel (which wasn't
involved) and because this entire entry only deals with what is
actually seen in the books, this one book must be considered a separate
alternate-Earth (John McDonagh pointed out that this Earth was
designated as Earth-3839 by John Wells in the Crisis Compendium that
shipped with the Absolute Edition of the Crisis). It was dealt with
as an
Elseworlds title (DC's answer to What If?), and was written and drawn
by John Byrne. Here's the synopsis for it:

(Captain America/Batman) - <1945, World War II> - Batman and
Captain
America (and their sidekicks Robin (Grayson) and Bucky) teamed up to
find out why the Joker why the Joker was trying to steal a nuclear
warhead. When the Joker found out he was working for the Red Skull, a
Nazi, he tried to end their partnership, but the Red Skull had the
Joker knocked unconscious. With the warhead loaded on a plane headed
for Washington, D.C., Captain America and Batman tried to stop it. The
Joker awoke and tried to disarm the bomb, but his struggle with the
Skull caused both of them to fall out of the plane. Batman and Cap took
over the plane, averting disaster. At some point near the end of the
war, Captain America disappeared. Twenty years later, the new Batman
(Grayson) and the new Robin (Bruce Wayne, Jr.) found Captain America
encased in a block of ice, and revived him. Back at the Batcave, the
two, along with a retired Bruce Wayne, Sr., welcomed the hero back.

...and
the alternate future timeline crossover:

The fourth issue in the X-Men/WildC.A.T.s crossover takes place in the
year 2019. As such, it is treated here like any alternate/divergent
future, and is not neccessarily part of the reality seen in the other
books. (Note that the first three issues were called WildC.A.T.s/X-Men,
but this one was called X-Men/Wild.C.A.T.s, as it was the only part of
the crossover publishe by Marvel).

(X-Men/WildC.A.T.s: The Dark Age#1) - At some point, the alien race
known as the Kherans (of which the Coda members Zealot and Savant
belonged) finally defeated their ages-long enemies the Daemonites.
Driven mad by the news, the Daemonites on Earth began to search for a
way to strike back, and fused themselves with Sentinels. They then
began to take over America, turn it into a wasteland by the year 2019.
Many members of the X-Men and other heroes were killed, while Jean
Grey, Cable, Majestic and Zealot went missing. A small group of former
X-Men and WildC.A.T.s tried to survive in these times. Elsewhere,
Grifter and Logan encountered the members of DV8, who had allied
themselves with the Daemonites. Eventually, Grey and the others were
freed from their captivity, and Kitty Pryde realized that the only way
to stop the madness was for several of the heroes to use their powers
together to go back in time and destroy the first Kheran ship that
arrived on Earth a thousand years ago. They did so, and their world
blinked out of existence.

Why
certain issues were placed where they were:

For the most part, the stories are chronologically listed in their
order of publication. However, there are a few that could not
work in that format. Darkseid Vs. Galactus, for instance, uses a
time-period in which the Silver Surfer was still the willing Herald of
Galactus. Using that as a basis, I placed this before a
theoretical Fantastic Four I#50 would have been published in this line.

Deathblow/Wolverine states that it takes place in 1982. However, this
is topical, and is only used to lend credence to the narrative in that
it takes place earlier in the characters' lives. Logan has pictures of
himself with Nightcrawler and Colossus, so he was already an X-Man. I
decided to relate this into the history by using the 1982 reference as
a point in which this story would have been published in the real
world, and not actual "Marvel time." It doesn't help that Wolverine is
wearing his classic yellow-and-blue outfit, but since he was "off duty"
at the time, I think we can chalk that up to that being the only one he
had at the moment.

WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Modern Age#1 is a little difficult to place for
one reason: it features a pre-Dark Phoenix Jean Grey in her Phoenix
garb as well as Wolverine in his yellow/brown outfit. He didn't wear
this until after her "death." I went ahead and placed it somewhere in
1979-1980 (real time, not Marvel time) and he just got his new outfit a
little earlier in this reality.
Some are more obvious: WildC.A.T.S/X-Men:
The Golden Age#1 is a World War II-era story. Team X/Team 7
takes place in the early lives of these teams, which would probably be
in the 1960s or '70s (though that's becoming topical).

Teen Titans Index#3 referenced the X-Men/Teen Titans book, and stated
that it would have taken place between X-Men I#153-154 and around New
Teen Titans I#26 (if those adventures happened on this world as they
did on their respective mainstream worlds, of course).

The Spider-Man/Batman crossover was placed where it was as a note in
the story says it takes place before the "Clone Saga." Since we have
the Batman/Spider-Man crossover occuring right before a reference to
Doc Ock being killed (by Kaine during said Saga), it has to go where it
does.

The
Crossover Craze

Marvel and DC collaborated on four (five if you include the Oz book, see below)
co-publications in the late 70s/early 80s before legal tape ended their
work together. The next project was going to be a Justice
League/Avengers team-up that wouldn't be revitalized until much later.
In 1994, Marvel and DC began working together again, and after the
first Batman/Punisher crossover, helped fuel a boom of inter-company
crossovers that lasted about six years before (mostly) petering out.
Virtually every major and indy superhero publisher released some book
in which their homebred heroes teamed up with some other company's.
Marvel, realizing the glut, ended their part in this around 1999 or so,
but have returned to it for the occasional shot. The Painkiller Jane
character was one created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti at their
Event Comics, and when Quesada went to work for Marvel, he had the
chance to bring the character back. The two latest crossovers with
Image/Top Cow characters was part of a deal with Top Cow in which
former X-Men artist (and Top Cow head) Marc Silvesti would return to
Marvel to pencil a four-issue stint of X-Men in return for his company
producing two crossovers with Marvel chracters.

Odds
and Ends

Names in red in significant inhabitants refer to
characters that are
not Marvel characters. To see who they are owned by, or at least
usually published by, see the issue matrix below.
For the record, Marvel and DC had one previous collaboration, though it
featured characters neither owned. They co-published an adaptation of
MGM's Wizard of Oz film in 1975, before the first Superman/Spider-Man
book.

Events on Earth-Crossover were witnessed at least twice by beings
native to Earth-616. Uatu the Watcher looked in on the world in What If
I#1 and Thor of the Avengers saw a brief image of it in Avengers
Forever#8 (Thor is with the Space
Phantom (in a fb to Thor I#281-282) and he sees Luthor
and Doctor Octopus during the events of the first
story where Superman met Spider-Man.
)

The old X-Men Index book also referenced Earth-Crossover, calling it
Crossover Earth. It was included in their glossary. To quote from it: "Distinguishing what does and does not
exist in Crossover Earth is a tentative situation at best...However, it
is probably futile to conjecture on the Crossover Earth existence of
heroes or elements of the Marvel and DC mythos not directly named."

Who owns the characters that made their only appearances in these
crossovers? Who knows. Marvel probably owns the ones that first
appeared in the books they published (Glider, Pretorious, etc.) and the
others probably own the ones that debuted in their parts of the
crossovers (Kaylie, Blair Cameron). In all likelyhood, they'll never
appear again, and in 20 or 30 years, a new group of Handbook writers
will have the new editors have the new legal department look into
it. However, that said, several of the mobsters from the
Batman/Punisher books were referenced later on in the regular DC Batman
books, and there was mention of a vigilante who showed up to kill them
(including a play on his name: "Pulverizer.").

When they first met Marvel characters, the team Gen 13 was published
by
Image Comics. Later on, Jim Lee, the owner of Wildstom Studios (a
branch within Image), sold his properties to DC Comics, and thus, Gen
13
became DC characters. For those not familiar with Wildstorm's
characters, the studio built an extensive backhistory for them. John
Lynch was a member of Team 7 early on, then became a member of the
government organization Black Razors before ultimately leading the team
of teens known as Gen 13. Likewise, Cole Cash was a Team 7 member who
eventually joined the WildC.A.T.s.

Similarly, Rob Liefeld's various characters began at Image as well,
under his Extreme Studios banner, before he struck out on his own with
Maximum Press. Supreme is basically a Superman clone with (depending on
who writes him) a god complex. Badrock is a member of Youngblood, a
government superhero team that was often more concerned with their
merchandising rights than saving the world (years before X-Statics).

Top Cow was a studio within Image that struck out on its own briefly
(and did the Devil's Reign crossover (not covered here)) before
returning to Image.

It's never revealed which member of the Trask family was responisble
for the Sentinels in Cyberforce/X-Men#1, just "a" Trask.

About the cameos in Punisher/Archie: Millie the Model and Patsy Walker
were some of Marvel's old female-directed stars of years past (Patsy
mentions to "Hedy" that she feels just like a kid again at the dance.
"Hedy" is Hedy Wolfe, Patsy's old friend. Their dialogue makes it clear
that they are not teens, but are just reliving their past a little).
The
"Katy" in the scene is Katy Keene, one of Archie Comics' old characters
and a major competitor in the market to books like Millie the Model in
decades past. There's probably a good number of Archie characters I
missed but I'm not quite familiar with them.

It should be noted, the same month Marvel published Punisher Meets
Archie, Archie Comics published the same book (with a different cover),
and called it Archie Meets the Punisher.

Will U. sent along a fairly detailed report distinguishing the
differences between how Earth-616 and Earth-DC work, and how those
differences caused the incompatibility between the two worlds (as seen
in JLA/Avengers). This would include, of course, the size and make-up
of Earth-DC being physically larger than Earth-616, and how the Speed
Force
of Earth-DC and the Chaos Magic of Earth-Marvel don't work well on each
other's plane of existence. That said, Earth-Crossover does not seem to
have these problems, as there appears to be a perfectly functioning
world in which both of the original realities seem to co-exist
peacefully. However, even back in the 1970s, they managed to point
out some of the differences between the two companies' characters and
the worlds they lived in. In
Superman and Spider-Man, Parker is in awe of how Metropolis idolizes
Superman, and in Superman Vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, Clark Kent
considers New York City to be a "filthy" city, unlike his home
town. In any event, this world does not seem to suffer from the
problems seen in Marvel/DC crossovers that require dimensional travel,
so it's best to leave all of this aside for the moment.

Some characters from other companies have unofficially shown up on
Earth-616, but these should be considered separate characters from
those dealt with here. These include Clark, Lois, Fastforward
(Barry Allen), and Officer Dragon (who even had a Skrull
impersonate him).

Unholy Union led into an Image/Top Cow series called First Born, which
explained the Cyberforce cameo at the end. However, since that series
featured no Marvel characters, it is being left out here. It COULD be
considered, though, to have taken place both on Earth-Crossover and
whatever world the Top Cow characters who haven't met Marvel characters
exist.

The New Avengers/Transformers deal: Okay, we know at least some Marvel
characters exist on Earth-Transformers (and Earth-Transformers UK,
which is slightly different but had similar beginnings), but this was
part of a deal that dealt with the Transformers series getting a reboot
and fresh start from those. Thus it is part of neither, and is easier
to place here instead.

Earth-74425
- This reality could conceivably be Earth-Crossover, but given its date
of origins and other details, I feel it's best to make it its own
reality, a sort of Earth-Captain Action, which happens to be populated
by Marvel and DC heroes as well.

Two more crossovers were discussed in various news sources,
but neither appears to be ever happening. Brian Michael Bendis had
wanted to do a third Daredevil/Batman crossover, but that turned into
a debacle thanks to some convention appearances that still aren't
completely clear. Also, Joe Quesada has long been challenging Todd
McFarlane to do a Spider-Man/Spawn crossover, but McFarlane appears to
have little interest.

Thanks to docsavage, who
alerted me to the work done regarding
Earth-Crossover in the various Index series, as well as its appearance
in What If. Major props to him as well for sending me a copy of
Batman/Daredevil to work with. Thanks to Will U.
who sent me his version of this profile
to work with. Both are much appreciated.
For a (near) complete list of all inter-company crossovers, even the
ones that don't involve Marvel, check out this site.

Kyle Smith, Per Degaton and Carycomic
agree that Earth-Crossover still exists as part of a parallel-Marvel
Universe. Carycomic stated that for that reason, it should be
numerically designated Earth-7642 (and so it was in OHotMU Hardcover#3). Because, according to a certain
back-issue Overstreet guide, April 1976 was when the two publishing
giants released SUPERMAN VS. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN to newstands!

Who knows? Perhaps,
on that Earth, there was no JLA/Avengers clash, in the mid-1980's, due
to the Onslaught Crisis. In which case, DC and Marvel have the
potential for their next corporate crossover.
--Carycomic

A curious homage
"obviously [Darkseid] had to escape [from the Wall,where he was
imprisoned in X-Men/New Teen Titans] somehow for later DCU appearances.
He did -- in Showcase '95#12, a Sovereign Seven prequel by Claremont
and Alan Davis. Hinting that, as far as the DCU goes at least,
X-Men/New Teen Titans is canon.
-Jeph! - - - - - (or Darkseid did something else in the DCU to get put
in the Wall - Madison)

And finally, a personal note:

I fully realize that not everyone will be satisfied with how this
profile was handled. Some people will have preferred to kept the
Marvel/DC crossovers on their own world separate from the other
companies, others will have preferred to have just limited it to the
very first four Marvel/DC crossovers. Others even will argue that some
or most of this could have occured on Earth-616. Until something
happens within the books themselves to nullify anything presented here,
I am fully confident that this is the best way to index these
adventures and chronicle their history.

Profile by Madison Carter,
who officially went bat#&@* insane doing this profile.